Does Linux have many viruses in circulation? I know mac's dont have much. My question is what is a good anti-viral solution, free and comercial versions?

http://linux.tucows.com/internet/preview/260046.html

Vexira - Commercial

http://clamav.elektrapro.com/

Clam - GPL

The one I'd pick would be the GPL one.

Yes it has viruses, but no not many. Viruses seem to be based on popularity of the OS "How many people can you hit with a small punch?" type mentality.

Dr. Web
http://www.sald.com/products.html

Kaspersky™ Anti-Virus
http://www.avp.ru/buyonline.html?cha...95425&tgroup=4

There are 2 freebies I know of, but I'm going to tell you my least favorite one.

http://www.hbedv.com/download/download.htm

AntiVir for Linux Workstation
avlxwks.tgz

F-Risk's engine is great, and supports Linux well.

Regards

worth mentioning that "no not many" is somethign of an understatement, generally can count the number of virii on one foot...

... and there's RAV. McAfee got a *NIX cli scanner as well. Both are commercial tho. Mac's got more viruses that linux. As I said in previous AV threads, it's not so much Linux viruses (Silvio made, uh 5?) you'll be worried but it's nice to scan your packages for Other Stuff like LRK's, worms, autorooters, etc etc.
Btw, I tested the CLAM package about a month ago on some AV stash, and it wasn't up to par with some commercial ones (AVP, RAV, Mcafee).

Here's to show some from what RAV tells me:
..[ ].tgz->(GZIP)->tk/find Infected_with:_Worm/Linux.Lion_(exact)
..[ ].tgz->(GZIP)->tk/ifconfig Infected_with:_Worm/Linux.Lion_(exact)
..[ ].tgz->(GZIP)->tk/pg Infected_with:_Worm/Linux.Lion_(exact)
..[ ].tgz->(GZIP)->tk/ssh.tgz->(GZIP)->.t0rn/shhk.pub Infected_with:_Trojan/Linux.Rootkit.T0rn_(exact)
..[ ].tgz->(GZIP)->tk/ssh.tgz->(GZIP)->.t0rn/shrs Infected_with:_Trojan/Linux.Rootkit.T0rn_(exact)
.->(GZIP)->w0rm/ADMw0rm Infected_with:_SH/Admworm.A*
.->(GZIP)->w0rm/testvuln.c Infected_with:_Worm/Linux.Admworm*
.->(GZIP)->w0rm/startup Infected_with:_SH/Admworm.A*
trojans/GMCreator_v0.4.zip-XPLT->GMCreator_v0.4/GMCreator.vbs Infected_with:_VBS/GMW.D*
trojans/GMCreator_v0.4.zip-XPLT->GMCreator_v0.4/ONZ.EXE Infected_with:_Trojan/Backdoor.AB_(exact)
trojans/wpack1.2b.zip-XPLT->wCRAT_Release_Pack_1.2b/wCServer.exe Infected_with:_Trojan/Win32.WCRAT.12B.DISARMED->
uniattack.pl Infected_with:_Worm/Solaris.Sadmind
ssh.tgz->(GZIP)->.t0rn/shrs Infected_with:_Trojan/Linux.Rootkit.T0rn_(exact)